María Luisa Bombal’s story left me overwhelmingly sad and dejected throughout the whole reading. The Shrouded Woman displays the main character’s — Ana Maria’s — most impactful interrelationships and choices as she remains in a limbo-like state before the finality of death. The text is beautifully written with an abundance of imagery and detail, allowing readers to […]
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Hi again! I hope you are all doing well. This week, I read “The Shrouded Women.” I would say it has been my favourite out of the other books we have discussed. Maria Luisa Bombal does a great job of capturing the story and the emotions of the main character, Ana María. I especially found […]
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In Bombal’s second novel, La amortajada (The Shrouded Woman), the recently deceased protagonist, while attending her own funeral, reflects on her life’s memories. The shrouded woman was a wonderful yet painful narrative of a woman reflecting on her life after death and watching over people she cared about. Several passages of this novel sent shivers […]
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The Shrouded Woman is a book centered on the perspective of a recently deceased, shrouded woman who has not yet been buried, and depicts the spiritual conversations, memories, and inquiries or questions that arise between this woman, lying on her hearse, and those who come to offer their condolences. Leaving the novel behind and entering […]
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The Shrouded Woman by Maria Luisa Bombal focuses on the life story of Anne Marie who is actually on her deathbed. Anne Marie is quite literally a femme fatale as the story starts with her being dead and at the time narrates her story along with the story of people paying their regards to her. […]
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As I write this, I’m listening to “She’s a Mystery to Me” by Roy Orbison, and in some way, I think the lyrics of this song relate to the musings expressed in “The Shrouded Woman” and talked about in the lecture – that in this novel, there is something about the female characters that cannot […]
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Maria Luisa Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” revolves around the life of Ana María, a woman from an aristocratic Chilean family. The novel is structured around Ana María’s funeral, where she narrates her story from within the coffin, providing insight into her thoughts, emotions, and experiences. While Ana María is physically dead, her soul and awareness […]
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The Shrouded Woman draws in readers with its poetic, symbolically rich narrative, which can present an initial struggle to understand but eventually transforms into a beautiful journey, particularly when read in Spanish, where the unique characteristics of the language offer another layer to the story. Love Journey Ana Maria’s romantic journey unfolds as a touching […]
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The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal was an interesting look into the end of someone’s life, well more specifically reflection after death. The novel included very intriguing relationships, which I found to be the most interesting part of the novel. I thought the way in which the novel was written, as a form of […]
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The Shrouded Woman is told through the eyes of a dead woman, Ana Maria. Though she is dead, she can still think and feel, and is aware of her surroundings. Thus she begins by telling us about where she is lying, and about the people coming to visit her. She then begins to reminisce aboutContinue reading ““How Do You Know?” “A Dead Woman Told Me” (The Shrouded Woman)”
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